Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian war dominated news feeds and media outlets in 2015,where one of its main outcomes the Islamic State took the lion's share. According to Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based company that provides commercial...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al  Wasl- Eqtsad)- Ritaj Shmier, an 8-month-old Syrian girl suffers of malabsorption disease since birth, therefore, she needs special formula of milk, which is unaffordable by her family as the price of one tin of milk is more than 2450 syrian pound....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham movement has freed members of an ISIS bombing cell in Babila town in the southern suburbs of Damascus, including the assassinations in-charge, Hamza Ahmed Shahada, sources said. The radical Sunni group, which is on the track to leave the southern district, is...

A French journalist has been forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang. The departure of Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ٍSyrian regime security has arrested Thursday two gangsters killed a retired officer last week in the government-held Homs city, pro-regime activists said. The slain colonel was killed by Ammar hussein and Khalil Khalil in Homs after being robbed. His killing has sparked...

German police evacuated two train stations in Munich late on Thursday, saying on Twitter they had received a tip regarding a planned militant attack on New Year’s Eve in the Bavarian capital. A police spokeswoman declined to give further details, saying a search for possible suspects had...

Fire engulfed a 63-storey skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday night, but with the block evacuated and only minor injuries reported authorities went ahead with a New Year's fireworks display at the world's tallest building a few hundred meters away. Tongues of flame shot skywards...

Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of one of Europe's most prestigious human rights awards, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating health because of a lengthy hunger strike, his wife said on Thursday. Ensaf Haidar, who was granted asylum in Canada...

Canada will bring in more than 6,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, missing its already delayed target of accepting 10,000 by year-end, the Canadian government said Thursday. Immigration Minister John McCallum said he expects Canada to reach that goal by mid-January, and meet its...

(AFP)- More than 100,000 police will be deployed throughout France to guard New Year's Eve celebrations that come six weeks after the attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday. The minister said that while there was "no direct threat" of an attack, "all...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Notorious Shiite Badr militia, which fights in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad,  has posted online photos showed its camps and fighters in Syria.   Two weeks ago Zaman Al Wasl revealed in an article...

Twitter said Thursday it was restoring access to deleted tweets from politicians, saying it would help "bring more transparency to public dialogue." Earlier this year, the U.S. messaging platform had blocked access to the deleted items by a website called Politwoops, which collected...

Shaken by a year of militant attacks, Europeans will ring in 2016 in subdued fashion on Friday, with soldiers on the streets of Paris, a heightened police presence at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, and silence across the vast cobbled emptiness of Moscow's Red Square. Bookended by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of poisoning cases reported in the po-regime towns in Hama province due to unknown material mixed with the main water supply, activists said. Regime urged people to use wells water until the health ministry specifies the reason. Meanwhile, a state of panic dominates the...

A U.N. plan to suspend Syria 's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict. A U.N. draft discussion paper obtained by Reuters includes...

Germany will start holding personal hearings for asylum seekers from Syria as of Friday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday, reversing a policy of granting almost automatic refugee status for Syrians. Syrians have since the end of 2014 enjoyed a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel fighters killed Wednesday in al-Waer neighborhood of the central city of Homs, in the first breach of the U.N.-brokered ceasefire reached early December, local activist said. Hassan al-Asmar, al-Waer-based activist, said Shiite popular committees had opened fire on...

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is preparing new sanctions on international companies and individuals over Iran's ballistic missile program, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the potential sanctions would target...

Iran denied Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf Saturday, rejecting a U.S. report as "psychological warfare". "The naval forces of the Guards have not had any...

(Al Arabiya)- Tunisian government met Wednesday to discuss adopting a new system of penalties regarding drugs that exclude jail time for the first and second offense. An official statement run by the state news agency said that the draft law on drug intends to repeal “the law number 52 dated...